First Look: African American Museum Opening on National Mall

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Quote Originally Posted by Jonsa
doncha just luv when the usual suspects crawl out from under their rocks to spout such typical racist batcrap?

So predictable.

 

from the link

"What began years ago as legislation under then-President George W. Bush will soon be the newest addition to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. "

 

That's, unfortunately, what history in general is all about.

 

Much can be learned from history--but when the learnings are finally made, if the history is as traumatic as it had been for American slaves it is best to move on. It is not IMO wise to drag each younger generation back through all the trauma. IMO one reason foreign blacks do so well in the US is that they are not constantly dragging that baggage and resentment around with them.

I don't mean the history of early America and slavery should be forgotten, but it should be considered a study at the graduate level and should not be imposed on young impressionable students of any race. IMO all that does is reestablish in young, impressionable minds the idea of an American black-white caste system...and we had truly begun to eliminate that prior to the resurrection of "race" as a central issue again.

The shocked and angry way black undergraduate college students are reacting to learning the unvarnished truth about black slavery in their black studies classes has me convinced that it would be healthier for them and society as a whole that "black studies" be eliminated from the undergraduate curriculum and left to advanced studies and for adults to explore. There is really no undergraduate curriculum for whites that explores in such gory detail similar learnings for their ancestors to those that seem to be upsetting black students, even though white people of many national origins could also be upsetting themselves as they dig into the experiences of some of their ancestors in this country. These black studies programs appear to be designed to be upsetting.

The idea of going to college is to learn, with an objective to be a better citizen. it is difficult to do that if early learnings in college make a person so enraged and upset that they can't concentrate on anything else. This is only being done to black students, and IMO will just end up being another impediment black students have to deal with that most white students do not have to deal with. The anger it arouses will distance many of them from white students and impair the process of networking, which often begins in college, and is critical to fully benefit from the possibilities that college often presents.

IMO young people that are still forming their personalities should not be burdened with the gory details of a traumatic racial past. Where this is essential for therapeutic reasons, licensed therapy should also be available from a skilled practitioner.

I feel very strongly that all elementary and junior high children should be taught history " lite", with the more upsetting details deferred until they are older. Tales of Paul Bunyan, Johnny Appleseed, and George Washington cutting down the cherry tree-type stories are IMO about all that is acceptable for elementary school kids, Kids should be taught things that give them a positive mindset. Additionally, it is no gain to improve black equality by imposing guilt feelings on every little white kid in existence or giving young bullies an excuse to pick on other kids..

 

Of course I don't expect anything from the usual suspects other than they spout racist batcrap with regularity without little actual thought and generally lots of stupidity.

 

Like this post of yours?

If my impatience with irresponsibility and ignorance looks like racism to you, you are going to have many difficulties in life.

 

FYI, they are ethnic not racial museums.

 

do you consider yourself one of the usual suspects spouting racist nonsense?
I actually wasn't referring to you specifically nor generally.

Feeling guilty?

I'm in the last 1/4 of my life. You are correct that I have had many difficulties in life but somehow I've managed to overcome them and for damn sure the joys and bennies have outweighed the tragedies and difficulties.

Cheers.

 

I was responding to your post.

Don't bother playing the age card--I'm probably older than you are. You should know better than to make such worthless posts; it does not become you, and you are capbale of better.

 

FYI, I'm 63.

 

I have you by almost a decade.

 

Since whites are soon to be a minority too someone needs to be planning the white people museum.

 

We should let them go, don't you think?

 

If we made a white museum, that would be racist.

 

We already have plenty of them, where have you been.

 

I didn't know grass huts were palaces, but if you look at the wreck and slums of Detroit, Gary, East St. Louis you can understand why your people would be confused.

 

I know you don't because you teach your kids His-Story instead of History. Get off the compound sometime and you might really learn something.

 

No mention of Clarence Thomas in the museum.

 

What section for did u look in?

 

In a mall? Do you know what the National Mall is ...? It's not a shopping mall. It houses Smithsonian Museums and it's part of our nation's capitol. There are a variety of museum's that are part of the Smithsonian Institution that are on the National Mall.

There is a holocaust museum, a museum about Native American history and culture, there is the Natural History Museum, National Air and Space Museum, multiple art museum's (I believe one focuses on Asian art), etc.

This is the latest museum to open and there has been such an overwhelming desire for tickets that the online timed tickets provided for entry are sold out through March of next year. New timed tickets for April onwards will be released next year. I expect those to go quickly as well.

 

Thurgood Marshall is there. So are Marian Anderson and many other icons.

 

How about Anthony Johnson?

 

Sorry, I don't know and I'm not sure which Anthony Johnson you're referring to ...

 

interesting, I thought it was a mall, as in a mall

 

The National Mall? In DC? It's basically where all of the real interesting stuff is, as far as the downtown area is concerned.

Now if you mean real malls, the Mall of America in Minneapolis is what comes to my mind.